August 2nd, 1825

Born on August 2nd, 1825

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on August 2nd?

August 2nd, 1971

The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.

August 2nd, 1973

A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.

August 2nd, 1947

Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.

August 2nd, 1939

Leo Szilard (pictured) penned a letter, signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that Germany may develop atomic bombs, leading to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.

August 2nd, 1932

At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.

August 2nd, 1923

Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.

August 2nd, 1920

Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty.

August 2nd, 1916

An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.

August 2nd, 1870

One of the world's earliest underground tube railways opened in the Tower Subway (interior depicted), a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London.

August 2nd, 1790

The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214.

August 2nd, 1100

While on a hunting trip in the New Forest, King William II of England was killed by an arrow through the lung loosed by one of his own men.

August 2nd, 0461

Unpopular among the Senate aristocracy for his reforming efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed by Ricimer and executed five days later.

January 1st, 1970

An allied army led by Philip II of Macedon overcame the forces of city-states led by Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony over the majority of ancient Greece.

August 2nd, 1914

The French army's general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany.

August 2nd, 1945

World War II: The Potsdam Conference ends.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Born on August 2nd, 1825

27

Tito Speri

Italian patriot (1825-1853)

*August 2nd, 1825, Brescia †March 3rd, 1853, Belfiore

72

Julius Schulhoff

Austrian pianist and composer (1825-1898)

*August 2nd, 1825, Prague †March 13th, 1898, Berlin

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66

Emmy von Dincklage

German writer (1825-1891)

*March 13th, 1825, Gut Campe †June 28th, 1891, Berlin

67

Jean-Martin Charcot

French neurologist (1825–1893)

*November 29th, 1825, Paris †August 16th, 1893, Montsauche-les-Settons

73

Johann Strauss II

Austrian composer (1825-1899)

*October 25th, 1825, Neubau †June 3rd, 1899, Vienna

66

Luis Martos y Potestad

Spanish politician (1825-1892)

*October 1st, 1825, Cartagena †July 4th, 1892, Madrid

52

Cristóbal Oudrid

Spanish pianist, conductor and composer (1825-1877)

*February 7th, 1825, Badajoz †March 13th, 1877, Madrid

91

Dadabhai Naoroji

Indian politician leader, scholar and writer (1825–1917)

*September 4th, 1825, Mumbai †June 30th, 1917, Mumbai

72

Charles Garnier

French architect

*November 6th, 1825, former 12th arrondissement of Paris †August 3rd, 1898, 5th arrondissement of Paris

69

George Inness

American landscape painter (1825-1894)

*May 1st, 1825, Newburgh †August 3rd, 1894, Bridge of Allan

65

Camilo Castelo Branco

19th-century Portuguese writer

*March 16th, 1825, Lisbon †June 1st, 1890, Seide

58

Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt

Astronomer and geophysicist from Germany (1825-1884)

*October 26th, 1825, Eutin †February 7th, 1884, Athens

77

Práxedes Mateo Sagasta

Spanish politician (1825–1903)

*July 21st, 1825, Torrecilla en Cameros †January 5th, 1903, Madrid

87

François Auguste Logerot

French general (1825-1913)

*February 1st, 1825, Noyers-sur-Cher †January 15th, 1913, Bourg-en-Bresse

78

Heinrich Tønnies

Danish photographer (1825–1903)

*May 10th, 1825, Grünenplan †December 11th, 1903, Aalborg

78

Alexis L'Hotte

French soldier and officer (1825–1904)

*March 25th, 1825, Lunéville †February 3rd, 1904, Lunéville

73

Angela Truszkowska

Polish beatified nun

*May 16th, 1825, Kalisz †October 10th, 1898, Kraków

65

Anna Elisabeth Kelly

Swiss painter (1825-1890)

*April 10th, 1825, St. Gallen †May 1st, 1890, St. Gallen

77

Marie of Nassau

European royal (1826-1902)

*January 29th, 1825, Biebrich †March 24th, 1902, Neuwied

71

Johann Jakob Egli

Swiss geographer (1825-1896)

*May 17th, 1825, Laufen-Uhwiesen †August 24th, 1896, Zurich

84

Eduard de Hartog

Dutch composer and pianist

*September 15th, 1825, Amsterdam †November 5th, 1909, The Hague

79

Nicasio Oroño

Argentine politician, lawyer and governor of Santa Fe (1825-1904)

*July 20th, 1825, Coronda †October 12th, 1904, Santa Fe

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1825 is a normal year and no leap year.

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